September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
... and research organisations, and dialogue established with the space industries of China and Japan, and with JAXA, the Japanese space agency. France and SA have also discussed space sector collaboration and opportunities to partner...
21 February 2019
Hayabusa2 starts descent towards Ryugu
... “home position” of 20 kilometres above Ryugu as it heads towards the rocky surface at a steady 90 centimetres per second (cm/s). JAXA signalled the probe and gave it the go ahead to begin the touchdown operation at 12.36 JST (03.36 GMT). As of two...
22 February 2019
Success for Hayabusa2 as it touches down on Ryugu
Mission control at JAXA had good cause to celebrate last night as their sample-return spacecraft, Hayabusa2, successfully touched down on an ancient ...
16 October 2020
BepiColombo’s first glimpse of Venus
... comprises ESA’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), is scheduled to reach its target orbit around the smallest and innermost planet of the Solar System in 2025...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
... simulations to explore the formation of stars and planets. In addition to Hayabusa2, Elizabeth assists with the global outreach on JAXA’s Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) and BepiColombo (Mercury) missions. She is also a feature writer for the NASA...
21 February 2020
MMX mission gets green light to land on Phobos
... a popular theory, but the jury is still out; JAXA hopes to answer this and other questions about Mars’ evolution,.... In addition to the sampling device and sample return capsule, JAXA’s contributions include a LIDAR laser altimeter, a dust monitor and...
